US President Obama has a dream where the United States gets none of its energy from coal, oil, or gas — and all of its energy from wind and solar.

In 2008, candidate Barack Obama infamously said that as president he would set policy that would bankrupt the coal industry: “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them… _ Source

In the late 1970s US President Jimmy Carter had the same dreams of green energy. The result of one term under Jimmy Carter’s dream was high unemployment, high inflation, and ruinously high interest rates. In fact, the US economy was in a much more precarious state at the end of Jimmy Carter’s single term than after two terms under George W. Bush:

When Ronald Reagan took over from Jimmy Carter in ’81, things were actually worse economically compared to when Obama took over from George W. Bush in ’08.

Consider these three important comparisons of economic indicators, then and now:

Fortunately, Jimmy Carter was not given a second term. The US is not so fortunate with Barack Obama.

The Reality is Much Worse Than What You See in the Graph

The US economy is the world’s largest, helped by the US dollar being the world’s reserve currency. But eventually every economy can become overburdened by poor government policies and skyrocketing debt.

Any government that cuts itself off from reliable energy and risks its industry and economy on intermittent unreliable energy such as wind and solar, is putting itself into a deep pit. If that government also generates rapid non-productive debt accumulation at the same time that it hobbles the ability of its own commerce and industry to innovate and produce, it is inviting a Dark Ages into the land.

What is clear is that human beings do not have to live with all of the consequences of the capricious stupidity of their leaders. Resilient communities and resilient networks of communities can build the capacity to survive and prosper against the natural corruption, decay, violence, and poverty that result from catastrophic leadership.

Teaching children to be multi-competent on a practical level is an early step in growing resilient communities. Teaching them to think in terms of business, markets, asset management, and profitable trades is a somewhat higher cognitive level of resilience training. Teaching them deep human psychology and how to apply that psychology to work, trade, all levels of community, and life in general, adds yet another level of resilience. Add the tools of innovation and invention, along with multiple skills of defence at various scale, and you have the beginning of a Dangerous Child training method.

More: Despite the efforts of Obama’s EPA to date, the US still enjoys an ongoing shale oil & gas boom, which is propagating economic benefits through various sectors, across several regions of the country. The US government could stop that boom in a heartbeat — and many of Obama’s people both inside and outside the US government want to do exactly that. Certainly Russia’s Pooty-Poot would like to see the US shale boom shut down.

Invention and innovation are important, but they have to be allowed to work:

Even a gross manipulation of data cannot make Obama’s economy look good

A lifelong dependence upon ever more corrupt government, is Obama’s promise to the youth of America. He makes the same promise to “disadvantaged” minorities. Since they all helped put him into office, consider it poetic justice of a Pyrrhic sort.

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What’s even better is to adjust it not for population growth but for non-traditional American demography growth or better yet for non-traditional American growth and the price of attracting a traditional American demography women into motherhood and away from mammon. Or… well, really, isn’t it strange SO MANY variables “conspired” to destroy the nation of settlers all at once starting exactly when the boomer females were entering fertility? I mean, come on….